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- proper noun Alternative form of
Uyghur .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
- noun the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
- noun the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
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Examples
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The name Uigur is perhaps more correctly applied to the alphabet than the language [466] which appears to have been the literary form of the various Turkish idioms spoken north and south of the Tien-shan.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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I am sympathetic to the cause of Uigur autonomy and rights.
Global Voices in English » Bermuda, U.S.A.: Guantanamo Controversy 2009
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Facing many of the same problems Tibetans have due to their religious views such as religious restrictions, forced abortions, imprisonment and execution, the Uyghurs '(also spelled as Uygur, Uigur, Uighur) plight isn't as visible to westerners as the Buddhist's situation.
Global Voices in English » The Uyghurs: Persecuted Muslim Minority in NorthWest China 2009
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A group of players decides to gain an advantage by time travel - but snatching a Uigur man just about to die from the 800s to use his knowledge to tactical advantage.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Steppe - Piers Anthony Blue Tyson 2010
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A group of players decides to gain an advantage by time travel - but snatching a Uigur man just about to die from the 800s to use his knowledge to tactical advantage.
Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Did anyone see the shortlist of sports the PRC athletes are participating in: 1. The 1000 RMB guanxi handoff 2. The Uigur/Tibetean target sharpshooting competition 3. The reverse engineer and copy steal.
China Boycotts Opening Ceremony at Which Ma Appears as Prez Michael Turton 2009
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The Uigur text is published in _Bibliotheca Buddhica_, 1914.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896
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The characters were neither easy to write nor graceful, and after Pagspa's death his invention fell into disuse and was replaced by an enlarged and modified form of the Uigur alphabet.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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She made a treaty with the Tibetans (783) and an alliance with the Uigurs, who now came to the front and occupied Turfan, where there was a flourishing Uigur kingdom with Manichæism as the state religion from about 750 to 843.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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A number of European savants are at present occupied with this literature and Sir Denison Ross (to whom I am indebted for much information) contemplates the publication of an Uigur text of Book I found in Central Asia.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896
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